Wednesday, February 4, 2009

cadavre exquis

Hi All,

I came across this link and thought it would be an interesting postscript to the conversation on Stein-Surrealism-language-art. The Surrealist parlour game Trish brought up is called Exquisite Corpse, and the ever useful Wikipedia overview is as follows:

"Exquisite corpse is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled... Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed."

The link I am posting is for a collaborative art project based on the game and I think the results are an interesting visual (re)presentation of the ways that words and images can benefit from being broken down, built up, dissected and manipulated.
Enjoy!

http://www.artichoked.com/art/corpse/

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the fantastic link. This is much prettier than the accordianed scribbler stock we used in my creative writing workshops.

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